Daily Debriefing
By Victoria Boggiano
Published on Thursday, May 24, 2007
College President James Wright was featured in an article in Wednesday's New York Times highlighting his efforts to encourage wounded war veterans to obtain a college education. In coordination with the American Council on Education, he helped to raise $300,000 to begin a program that provides individualized college counseling to the injured soldiers. Currently, these educational counselors work at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. and Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas assisting a total of 100 injured veterans.
Google will no longer display advertisements for term paper and essay-writing websites, according to an article in Wednesday's Chronicle of Higher Education. In the next few weeks, these "paper mills" will be forbidden from purchasing search terms in the Google AdWords program, preventing their ads from appearing in the "sponsored links" sections of search results pages. While sites such as Term Paper Relief -- which provides "A-grade term papers" for $9.95 per page -- do not feel that they are doing anything wrong, Google has chosen to side with universities that view the sites as a means for plagiarism.
Eleven Stanford University students were arrested after conducting a five-hour sit-in held in University President John Hennessy's office Tuesday afternoon, according to an article in Wednesday's San Mateo County Times. As members of the Stanford Sweat-Free Coalition, the students were trying to prompt the university to adopt guidelines that would require that clothing bearing Stanford's logo be manufactured only in factories that provide adequate workers' rights. One of Hennessy's spokesmen stated that he was surprised that the students held the demonstration despite the fact that Hennessy had scheduled a meeting with the Sweat-Free Coalition leaders next week. "We had wanted to work with them," spokesman Jeff Wachtel said in the article. "Now, if you get arrested, you lose the right to have the meeting. From the student perspective, this is a step backwards." The students, on the other hand, felt that the demonstrations were necessary to make university officials more responsive.